Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8107257 | Electronic assembly retaining system An electronic assembly retaining system provides a secure mount for an electronic assembly, such as an avionics assembly, while being lockable and releasable via manual rotation of a single retainer stem that may be positioned in a readily-accessible location. The r... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8038464 | Electrical connector with adaptable strain relief having clamping members of different shapes An electrical connector for electronics applications such as avionics or the like includes an adaptable strain relief feature for accommodating different sizes of wire bundles that terminate and are electrically coupled within the connector. The strain relief featur... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7505835 | System and method for producing flight pathway A system and method for displaying a three-dimensional image of airspace includes a series of translucent, horizontal “pavers” that lie like stepping stones marking the selected flight path. In addition, the display includes a series of vertical rectangles—cal... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7123260 | System and method for synthetic vision terrain display A synthetic rendering of the terrain within a selected field of view is created from raw terrain elevation data, and the resolution of the rendering is proportioned to the altitude above ground level (altitude AGL) of the aircraft. All the data points are subdivided... | 10/17/2006 |
| 6856908 | Passive clear air turbulence detection avionics system and method A passive clear turbulence (CAT) detection system for use on-board an aircraft comprises: an antenna for receiving electromagnetic radiation and for generating electrical signals representative thereof; and a processor for processing the electrical signals with at l... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6727842 | Digital IF processor Apparatus for processing a signal of a predetermined intermediate frequency (IF) to generate in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) components thereof comprises: an analog-to digital converter circuit for sampling and digitizing the IF signal to generate digitized data sam... | 04/27/2004 |
